Formula One drivers from Italy

Formula One drivers from Italy
Drivers98
Grands Prix860
Entries3411
Starts2992
Best season finish1st (1950, 1952, 1953)
Wins43
Podiums207
Pole positions48
Fastest laps51
Points2040.8
First entry1950 British Grand Prix
First win1950 British Grand Prix
Latest win2006 Malaysian Grand Prix
Latest entry2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
2024 driversNone
Giovinazzi driving for Alfa Romeo-Sauber at the 2019 Austrian Grand Prix

There have been 98[citation needed] Formula One drivers from Italy including two World Drivers' Champions. Giuseppe "Nino" Farina was the first ever World Champion and Alberto Ascari was the first double World Champion. All three championships came in the early 1950s and very few Italian drivers have come close since Ascari's 1953 victory. In 1989 and again for the following two years there were 13 drivers from Italy.[1] Antonio Giovinazzi was the last Italian driver, having competed in F1 from 2019 to 2021. Andrea Kimi Antonelli is contracted to join Mercedes in 2025. Prior to Giovinazzi, there were five consecutive seasons without an Italian driver, with 2012 marking the first season an Italian driver did not enter a Formula One race weekend and the first season since 1969 that an Italian driver did not start a race.

  1. ^ Collantine, Keith (19 February 2012). "Italy left without an F1 driver in 2012". F1 Fanatic. Retrieved 4 November 2012.